Quoted from CrazyLevi:This is the biggest surprise for me, just since I never paid much attention to baseball cards but was under the impression the industry died 25 years ago.
Has this been a gradual comeback or a pandemic thing?
Sports cards died off in the 90's due to over-producing everything. The companies now have reigned in production and leverage new rookie cards into super rare fancy sub sets that a collector just has to have. I saw some random hockey player's super rare rookie card sold for $250k at auction recently. So if you have generic early 90's stuff, give that to some kid since most of it isn't worth much. Michael Jordan's rookie card? That's still worth something.